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1: NC

2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[Darkening Kaos]

The pellets from a shottie do leave a trace, but it seems to be less distinct than anything else, like a single trace split up for each pellet - or something like that.

[sambojin]

That's actually why I use it. Great for plinking, great for finishing people off with. 3-5 shot kills at close'ish range, but most shots have 3-4 pellets pretty much dead-centre, giving 1-3 hits, which isn't bad in comparison to most semi-auto weapons, except that they rock up close. But yeah, BRs are very under-rated. I always wonder how a small group (3-4) of them would do. Considering the ammo, rocket, turret, whatever support a small group could hold, it's scary.  But any small (2-5 strong) group can do wonders in PS2.

But that's why I tend to love engys. No matter what's going on, you've always got something to do. XP/cert earning stuff. In any group. People die, but they usually use ammo or need repairs before they do it. So much to do, unlimited bullets to do it with........

[zombat]

Speaking of shotguns, are VS ones silenced?

Whenever some sneaky spandex wearing twat shoots me in the back the only thing I hear is the impact of the pellets against my soft fleshy torso

[beorn080]

I have one bit of advice for extreme newbs.

When you get your first few certs,  invest in your suit. There are a range of one cert improvements in that catagory for all classes, and it provides a bit of a bump to your survival. Also, given that most early certs are in the 30-50 range, its very easy to overlook the ones that are basically free like that.

[Jim Groovester]

I've been doing scrim practice with my outfit recently, by doing intra-outfit competition. We're preparing for a scrim on Saturday against a TR outfit on Connery.

My outfit leaders only want me to play as heavy now, since I'm apparently so good at killing things that it would be a waste for me to be anywhere else. I find this arrangement satisfactory. I enjoy killing things and I feel flattered that my skill at killing things is regarded well enough such that I am assigned the class whose sole purpose is killing things better than all other classes.

Even though this stuff is intense and competitive, it's also somewhat unsatisfying. I'm spending all this time playing Planetside 2, but on PTS alts, so I'm not working on unlocking things that would make me more competitive on the live servers. I feel like I'm doing all this work and it's not counting for anything, and having everything unlocked on the PTS somehow cheapens the experience.

[Toaster]

Are you improving as a player, though?


Perhaps your outfit isn't moving in the direction you want, and you should come enjoy the Glorious Golden Freedom?

Spoiler: Truly glorious (click to show/hide)

It's even more glorious when combined with Lumifiber.  I'm extra partial to the Vanguard.

[TolyK]

Epic camos XD

[Jim Groovester]

There are ES sniper rifles on the test server right now. And each of them adheres to their faction traits in their own unique way.

The NC get a hard-hitting sniper rifle that can damage armor and change fire modes to a FUCKING SHOTGUN and the VS have a semi-auto sniper rifle that can charge up to do bolt action damage and best of all has NO FUCKING DROP and the TR have a burst fire/full auto sniper rifle with horizontal recoil so bad it's basically FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO SHOOT ANYTHING

And crossbows. You like crossbows? What the hell, let's have crossbows.

[DJ]

Snniper/shotgun? Holy shit that sounds awesome, I'm so happy right now that I picked NC.

[da_nang]

Let's hope SOE has learnt its lesson about shotgun infiltrators.

Also, that cooldown on the Shade. And you can't even hold the charge for long. Missing with that weapon will be brutal.

[Sonlirain]

I think they should remake the TR sniper into an accurate 2 shot burst rifle similar to AN-94
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN-94
Basically a rifle that rapidly fires 2 bullets that hit the exact same spot.
It would turn it into a nice hybrid of semi auto and bolt action... just add a cooldown between "bursts" and there ya go.

[Toaster]

What's the (purported, at least) advantage of the shotgun sniper over a single bullet in the braincase?

[forsaken1111]

What's the (purported, at least) advantage of the shotgun sniper over a single bullet in the braincase?

As I understand it, the gun is normally a regular sniper rifle but has an alt-fire which is a close range shotgun.

So... versatility would be the advantage I suppose.

[DJ]

Sniper rifles are useless in CQC, and shotguns are the best CQC weapon.

[Toaster]

Oh, so it's not something ridiculous like a sniper-range shotgun blast?  Good to know.